CVE-2013-4306: CSRF
First published: Fri Oct 11 2013(Updated: )
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in api/ApiQueryCheckUser.php in the CheckUser extension for MediaWiki, possibly Checkuser before 2.3, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that "perform sensitive write actions" via unspecified vectors.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | >=1.19.0<1.19.8 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | >=1.20.0<1.20.7 | |
| MediaWiki MediaWiki | >=1.21.0<1.21.2 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html
- http://osvdb.org/96908
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62210
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45019
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86893
- https://git.wikimedia.org/commit/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCheckUser.git/99ad25d066ce6111e798427cba7f21526827f651
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/type
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- agent/references
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/remedy
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/mediawiki
- canonical/mediawiki mediawiki
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.19.0
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.20.0
- version/mediawiki mediawiki/1.21.0